Doris Salcedo in "Compassion" - Season 5 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21

Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Doris Salcedo, from the "Compassion" episode in Season 5 of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series.

"Compassion" premiered in October 2009 on PBS.

Filmed in her Bogotá, Colombia studio while preparing a series of abstract sculptures based on antique household furniture, Doris Salcedo devotes careful attention to the tormented wooden finishes and smooth concrete surfaces of her objects.

Doris Salcedo was born in 1958 in Bogotá, Colombia. Learn more about the artist at: https://art21.org/artist/doris-salcedo

CREDITS
Created by: Susan Sollins & Susan Dowling. Executive Producer & Curator: Susan Sollins. Series Producer: Eve-Laure Moros Ortega. Associate Producer: Migs Wright. Associate Curator: Wesley Miller. Production Manager: Nick Ravich. Production Coordinator: Larissa Nikola-Lisa. Consulting Director: Catherine Tatge. Editor: Mark Sutton. Director of Photography: Philippe Charluet, Bob Elfstrom, & Joel Shapiro. Additional Photography: Miguel Sanchez-Martin & Ross Sebek. Sound: Ray Day, Henri Maïkoff, Cory Melious, Evan McIntosh, Patrick Mullins, & Roger Phenix. Assistant Camera: Gregory Paul Bigelow, Craig Feldman, Agnès Jammal, & Clair Popkin. Production Assistant: Ivan Andres Aguirre, Jimmy Chauke, & Amira Abultaif Kadamani.

Major underwriting for Art in the Twenty-First Century Season Five provided by: National Endowment for the Arts; Public Broadcasting Service; Agnes Gund; Bloomberg; The Nathan Cummings Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; The Broad Art Foundation; Korea Foundation; & The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.

Full credits available at https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-tw...

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